On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 08:45:58AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 4/20/25 7:56 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 07:27:12AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I'm restarting a editing project that could take advantage of using > > > "regular > > > expressions". > > > > > > I had stated using Kate for the project. > > > > > > I'm reviewing my regular expression related web searches. It would be > > > helpful if I could find a _single_ document that made comparison > > > between/among Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart. [e.g. package goals] > > > > Now I'm confused: regular expressions or package comparisons? > > My "universe of discourse" is a collection of references discussing the use > of "regular expressions". > > A significant number of which mention Kate *or* Kwrite *or* Katepart. > I need to understand the entity goals of Kate, Kwrite, and Katepart. > I.E. In a discussion of "regular expressions", does it matter which of those > packages is referred to? > > Clearer?
Got it. Then David Wirght's answer seems to be the most appropriate. Most (programmer's) text editors (from the many variations of vi, Emacs, and, yes, Kate and its friends) do support regular expressions. Note that regular expressions come in slightly different flavours. Going by Kate's documentation [1] on this topic they seem to be PCRE or a variant thereof. Cheers [1] https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/katepart/regular-expressions.html -- t
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